like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
My apologies for answers tersely to your wall of text that probably took you awhile to type.
In my definition of the word “greed”, a person who gets $5 an hour and asks for $6 an hour is being greedy. And there’s nothing wrong about that if they deserve it. Also there’s nothing wrong with the newly made millionaire who sold their company that they founded. Like there’s nothing wrong with the CEO of the large company who decided to buy that company. All these three cases have greed as the main motivator, but whether they’re being evil is not about wanting more for yourself. It may become evil by how you implement your greed.
I think we’ve just been taught to distrust this idea in all its manifestations, I would guess through religion. Almost all religions say it’s just a vice and that’s it. No corner cases.
Naw that’s fine, it was mostly just jotting down what I was thinking that day.
That is probably true, and kind of ties to what I said in the beginning that it has a very negative connotation to it. Greed is a very normal thing even though it can be extremely nasty, depending on what kind it is and what it is used on. Which is probably why it is considered a vice in so many places.
Interestingly, I started to think about the person who gets $5/h and asks for a raise to $6/h, you mention that there is nothing wrong with it if they deserve it, but who makes the call? Would it be literally the guy thinking that yo I really deserve that money, or would it be moreso that they ask for it and the employer decides what they deserve (in their mind of course). I guess both of them? They both have a certain view of the employee and the work itself and they put some monetary value to that which they think the employee deserves. Though I guess most of the time the employer does not pay what they think the employee deserves, but as little as possible while still getting employees and the job is done at adequate level. Of course the best case scenario would be that employer pays the employee what they think they deserve and the employee agrees that this is an adequate amount. EDIT: and immediately I started thinking that “best case scenario” for whom? I guess better term would be the most fair scenario. EDIT2: … And you can continue and wonder who gets to decide what is most fair and what is not, but I really really don’t want to start thinking about this any more lmao.
I don’t necessarily think that there would be something wrong about asking for a raise even if you think you don’t deserve it. If you ask for it, and you get it, doesn’t that mean that your employer thinks you do deserve the raise? And if you don’t, then no change happens. Though I guess in this case it would be more “pure” greed? You want something you really know you don’t deserve but just want anyway and ask for it. Would that be wrong? I don’t know actually.
Oh well, I’m not gonna start to ramble off too much this time but as a concept, greed and everything relating to it and where one might draw the line is pretty interesting.